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title: I gave you gold and jewels; I have hung my gold slipper round your n… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I gave you gold and jewels; I have hung my gold slipper round your neck with my own hand--sing! do sing!’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 158

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I gave you gold and jewels; I have hung my gold slipper round your neck with my own hand--sing! do sing!’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** give, hang, sing · **To what, where:** gold, you, gold slipper

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:48:158
# text = I gave you gold and jewels; I have hung my gold slipper round your neck with my own hand--sing! do sing!’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	round	round	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
24	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | I | gold and jewels | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient gold=Theme |
| 2 | **hang** | present · perfect | I | my gold slipper |  |  |  | round your neck; with my own hand and sing | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent slipper=Patient with hand=Instrument |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | present · do-support | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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